Many thanks Ronni, again comprehensive and excellent advice.
Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 27/05/2012, at 5:39 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > IMAP (SSL) is my recommendation, others might disagree. > > Have a good read of "The Case For Email Security" at this link: > <http://luxsci.com/blog/the-case-for-email-security.html> > > Especially Section 5: Securing Your Email With SSL or TLS > > Extract taken from the Article / > "SSL: It is simple and easy to use SSL to secure the communications between > your computers and your email service provider’s computers. > This works no matter who your recipients are. SSL improves security in these > ways: > It establishes that you are contacting your service provider’s > computers and not someone else’s > It encrypts the username and password that you use to login to > these servers. This mitigates identity theft and other issues. > It protects your message from eavesdroppers between your > computer and your SMTP server. > > > The easiest thing you can do to make your email more secure is to use an > email provider that supports “Secure Socket Layer” (SSL) for their Webmail, > POP, IMAP, and SMTP servers. TLS is a type of SSL that can be initiated > during a mail session; unlike TLS, SSL must be initiated before sending the > email (see SSL versus TLS – What’s the difference?)." > End of Extract/ > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.4 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 27/05/2012, at 11:02 AM, iCloud wrote: > >> Good morning all, >> >> Due to the imminent demise of MobileMe web hosting I have transferred my web >> site to another host. I am setting up e-mail accounts such as >> i...@skehan.id.au and the like but cant figure out if I should use the >> Auto-Configure Mac Mail.app® for IMAP Access or the Auto-Configure Mac >> Mail.app® for IMAP Access (SSL) app provided by the hosting people. They >> also give manual settings; Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S >> (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL/TLS) and Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: >> SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS). >> >> It seems straight forward but to SSL or not to SSL is the question? >> >> Any advice will be appreciated. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Adrian >> >> adrianske...@me.com >> >> www.skehan.id.au > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
